JD HR business partner

							                      HR Manager/Business Partner - Job Description

Role Title:            HR Manager/Business Partner

Reporting To:          HR Director

Role Purpose:          To proactively lead, manage and support all Head Office and Distribution departments,
                       providing a comprehensive and pro-active generalist support and regular facilitation of
                       teams and people covering a wide HR agenda, and, in particular, Learning and
                       Development.=

No of Direct           None
Reports

ROLE REQUIREMENTS - What the role holder needs to do to achieve the role purpose.


      Key                                                           Key Elements
 Responsibilities
Strategy and                   As a senior member of HR team, contribute to strategic planning to deliver a pro-active level of
planning                        HR support and foresight to underpin the company’s strategic plans and growth

                               Responsibility for effectively planning all HR support activity to business areas – both strategic
                                and reactive areas of the role and function

                               Pro-actively planning and working to timelines to deliver key projects as well as other large items
                                of work output

Employee Relations             Supporting a busy employee relations agenda which is symptomatic of the pace of growth and
                                associated change that the business is managing. This agenda will reflect both reactive and pro-
                                active matters some of which reflect the level of sometimes heavy touch support to general ER
                                matters.

                               Typically this role may be supporting between 5 – 10 light and heavy ER cases at any one time
                                in between other HR agenda items.

                               Whilst the business enjoys a positive track record and so few issues go as far as tribunal level,
                                the company works hard and pro-actively to overcome issues arising.

                               The role will contribute with other HR colleagues to provide training, education, communication
                                tools and advice to support line managers in more effectively managing employee relations
                                activity locally

                               The role will work closely with other HR peers to monitor and develop and implement any new
                                polices and principles as needed

Recruitment                    Work closely with the Resourcing Partner and heads of departments and Hiring leaders to
                                control and agreement recruitment requirements, agree and write the briefs for roles and
                                together with the Resourcing partner agree best strategy

                               Involved in developing and delivering recruitment related training to hiring leaders

Organisation Design       The role will assist Leaders to continuously assess effectiveness and design of organisation

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& Development             structures to meet the evolving needs of a growing company.

                         The role will need to develop and maintain a strong level of understanding and insight into all roles
                          across business area and how they interconnect and associated ways of working to enable the role to
                          proactively assist and contribute to new thinking with leaders

                         The role will often need to informally evaluate the weighting of positions and where positions should
                          sit in relation to benefits levels and so a good knowledge of job evaluation methodology and its
                          application of this in a light touch way into the business an advantage

                         The role will assist in continuously building upon the new performance management framework of My
                          Plan, Being Joules & The Joules companion and helping to train the management and employee skills
                          into the business to effectively fulfil this and achieve a high performance culture

Business                 A very large and pro-active element of the role will be to support on-going evolution of staff structures,
Engagement and            roles and responsibilities as well as contractual terms and conditions of employment where these
change                    need to change or be tweaked to accommodate growth and new skills.

                         The role will support light touch and larger restructures involving formal and informal consultation
                          activity where the role will need to recommend and strike the right balance and consider best strategy
                          to minimise business disruption whilst taking into account legal responsibilities of the business

                         The role will often partner or even lead or facilitate engagement and communication events and
                          sessions with staff to help cascade events or facilitate new ways of working

Learning and             Central to the role will be the contribution to design and delivery of a practical management
Development               development and broader learning & development plan/curriculum. The role needs to work creatively
                          and resourcefully to help develop basic and intermediate management development and team events
                          covering HR related topics as well as broader basic motivational and team working interventions.

                         In addition the role will develop other educational/development based tools such as written toolkits
                          and guides and other non-classroom aids to support development activity

                         The role will work with Heads of Department to develop and maintain practical and where possible low
                          cost approaches to supporting career development, skills development and succession planning

                         Performance Coaching up to and including Management level


Employee                 The role will work closely with HR Manager of Central Ops to establish and maintain a consistent suite
Productivity and MI       of people reporting and analysis which monitors and informs on people trends and compliance issues
                          and within their business area will work with leaders to improve or address issues arising

                         Accountable for monthly contribution to Board reporting


Reward                   Responsibility for maintaining a tight management of salaries and benefits management which at
                          times requires pro-active attention and assessment in the absence of a very structured grading and
                          reward system at this time

                         The role will support annual and any other salary review and benefits considerations and will
                          contribute to any projects to support new approaches to reward systems

                         The role will play a key part in communicating out changes or any requirements of Leaders and
                          Managers linked to reward and associated education and training




Health and Safety             Take reasonable care for the Health and Safety of yourself or other persons who may be

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                                      affected by your act or omissions.
                                     Cooperate with the Company to comply with any Company safety rule and/or any duty or
                                      requirement imposed under legislation or relevant Codes of Practice.
                                     Maintain safe and clean conditions in your working area according to the Company’s
                                      housekeeping standards.
                                     To bring to the attention of the Company’s Safety Officer or Management any dangerous
                                      practices or potential risk as are observed.




Skills / Attributes Required
      Ideally full member of CIPD
      High level of planning and organisational skills
      Strong understanding and application of project disciplines
      Strong experience in area of employee relations at a level where can demonstrate and advise both tactically according to a
           situation and best commercial outcome whilst balanced with legal requirements. Managing in a way which minimises
           bureaucracy where possible whilst ensuring robust and practical processes are in place
      Dispute conciliation and resolution
      Management & Learning & development – High degree of group facilitation skills and ability to design and deliver training
           and development solutions up to and including middle management and other engagement events involving senior heads
           of department. Whilst not a specialist role, this position will be heavy on engagement and development activity and
           therefore experience in this area including in the design and facilitation of team events will be important at a practical level.
      Experience of designing practical training courses at management development and other skills levels
      Practical experience in Reward methodology including job evaluation

The Main Contacts – external/internal contacts and purpose
Directors
HR team
All employees




Line Manager:                        Signature           ................................................. Date: .............................

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Incumbent:                           Signature           ................................................. Date: .............................


                                     Name                .................................................

                                         (Signed copy to be placed in Personnel File)




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